Paul Gray, the bassist of the controversial heavy metal band Slipknot, was found dead in a hotel room in Iowa.

French First Lady Carla Bruni, who is said to have had a string of affairs, is facing embarrassment after an X-rated interview from her steamy past has resurfaced.

Archaeologists have unearthed what is believed to be Europe’s oldest swastika during the excavations of a religious site at Altimir in Bulgaria.

The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government put forth its economic and political reforms agenda in Queen Elizabeth II’s speech at the state opening of Parliament on Tuesday.

Bangladesh opening batsman Tamim Iqbal expects to play against England in the first Test at Lord’s starting here on Thursday despite struggling with a wrist injury that could yet require surgery.

The England team will have to negotiate some deadly serpents at their World Cup base, Rustenburg, in South Africa. Killer pythons, spitting cobras, puff adders and black mambas are in abundance around the Bafokeng Sports Campus in Rustenburg. The Royal Bafokeng Sports Hotel and Complex will be England’s World Cup

British Airways cabin crew on Monday launched the first five-day strike as some flights were disrupted and cancelled.

Woolly mammoths helped to keep the earth warm by filling the atmosphere with methane 13,000 years ago, say scientists.

Britain on Monday unveiled details of £6.243 billion savings in government spending this year to tackle the £156 billion deficit.

The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, has apologised for her “serious lack of judgement” after a tabloid on Sunday accused her of allegedly offering to sell access to her former husband Prince Andrew f